U+534C "卌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
卌
U+534C "卌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the number forty, formed by combining four instances of the character "十" (ten), each arranged in a grid or crossed pattern. It is a relatively rare but historically significant ideograph, often used in traditional Chinese accounting, tallying, or shorthand contexts to denote the number 40 without writing the full two-character term "四十". This character is also found in some Japanese and Korean classical texts, where it serves a similar numeric function, and it remains part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, encoding a visual and semantic link to ancient numeral representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+534C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 卌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 卌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8D 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x534C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000534C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u534c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C96D |
| kCCCII | 216D41 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-214E |
| kCNS1992 | 2-214E |
| kCangjie | TT |
| kCantonese | sei3 |
| kCihaiT | 216.202 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0355.040 |
| kDefinition | forty, fortieth |
| kEACC | 216D41 |
| kFanqie | 先立 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4400.0 |
| kGB3 | 1602 |
| kHanYu | 10060.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10060.020:xì |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0355.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10060.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0156.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3022 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C96D |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3437 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2569 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-214E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D69 |
| kJapanese | シュウ |
| kJapaneseKun | YONJUU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUU |
| kJis1 | 2023 |
| kKangXi | 0156.140 |
| kKorean | SIP |
| kMandarin | xì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007847 |
| kMorohashi | 02712 |
| kNelson | 0087 |
| kOtherNumeric | 40 |
| kPhonetic | 1132 1156 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14367+24.2.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 24.3 |
| kSBGY | 533.13 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+2098C<kHanYu |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+2099C |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | tấp |
| kXHC1983 | 1235.090:xì |